Prof. Dr. Daniel J. Lang

Prof. Dr. Daniel J. Lang held the UNESCO Chair in Higher Education for Sustainable Development at Leuphana University Lüneburg from 2021 to 2023, succeeding Gerd Michelsen. Since 2022, he has been Professor of Real-World Laboratory Research at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), where he heads the research group “Designing real-world laboratory research”.

His research focuses on real-world laboratories and real-world experiments, transdisciplinarity, sustainability science, and methods of knowledge integration and decision support in human-environment systems.

From 2010 to 2022, he was Professor of Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research at Leuphana University Lüneburg. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Sustainability from 2012 to 2016 and as the President’s Special Advisor for Sustainability from 2016 to 2021. Before coming to Lüneburg, he completed his doctorate at ETH Zurich and worked there as a researcher and senior scientist at the Institute for Environmental Decisions (2001–2009).